Concerning History

Tag: Culture

Historical Fanfiction: Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra

Post author By Bryan Caswell
Post date June 5, 2023

Falling and Failing: Edward Watts’ The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

Post author By Bryan Caswell
Post date April 24, 2023

Seized by the Undertow: Barry Cunliffe’s Europe Between the Oceans

Post author By Bryan Caswell
Post date March 27, 2023

A Preponderance of Gold: Julian Fellowes’ The Gilded Age

Post author By the Staff
Post date March 13, 2023

Missing Ingredients: Historical Elision and the Assassins’ Creed Franchise

The modern remains of the famous Parthenon, a temple to Athens' patron goddess built with the proceeds of its defensive league-turned-empire.

Post author By Bryan Caswell
Post date March 6, 2023

Book Club: White Malice by Susan Williams

Post author By the Staff
Post date February 20, 2023

Science versus Ignorance: Clio Barnard’s The Essex Serpent

Post author By the Staff
Post date February 13, 2023

Gaining our Bearings: Historical Scale & Its Implications

HANDOUT - Enslaved workers working for Confederate forces during Civil War.(Courtesy of The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News: A Joint Project by Sandra J. Still, Emily E. Katt, Collection Management, and the Beck Center of Emory University)

Post author By Francis Butler
Post date February 6, 2023

Spotight on the Steppe: Barry Cunliffe’s The Scythians

Post author By Bryan Caswell
Post date January 30, 2023